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Attraction, Recruitment and Resourcing of Talent

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Health systems can only function with health workers, and improving health service coverage is dependent on their availability, accessibility, acceptability and quality. Attracting talented people therefore is important to health sector organisations in two ways: firstly to satisfy immediate, operational needs and secondly to support the fulfilment of longer-term strategic objectives. But the ability to recruit the best talent with the skills to deliver high-quality work should not be underestimated.

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Turner, P. (2018). Attraction, Recruitment and Resourcing of Talent. In: Talent Management in Healthcare. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57888-0_9

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